On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 00:24, Pascal Voitot <[email protected]>wrote:
> I have not followed everything about the new skin so my opinion is a bit > late but I look the last proposals and I agree with you, Niels, red & blue > is a bit stressful... > blue, red or orange "pastel" colors are too "tasteless" to make it > attractive also... > Moreover, colibri skin seems quite angular and too bright colors with > respect to white background and dark grey font colors gives me an > impression > of not being finished... something under work... you know, something is > missing to make it "sexy" or "pro" depending on what you are looking > for;)... not easy to explain my impression... In fact I wonder whether this > is not simply due to this big background panel with a unique color not too > light, not too dark... Maybe just playing with some nicer borders and some > font color contrasts would make it... > The idea was to use Colibri as it is, without changing the borders and the fonts. Thanks for feedback :) > Not an easy work... but let me tell you everything you've already done is > quite nice anyway... > > Pascal > > On Mon, Sep 28, 2009 at 9:39 PM, Niels Mayer <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > http://incubator.myxwiki.org/xwiki/bin/download/ColorThemes/XWATCH5/XE5.png > > > > > > > http://incubator.myxwiki.org/xwiki/bin/download/ColorThemes/XWATCH5/XWATCH5 > . > > png< > http://incubator.myxwiki.org/xwiki/bin/download/ColorThemes/XWATCH5/XWATCH5.%0Apng > > > > > > > > Combining red and blue is visually stressful. They focus at different > > lengths and therefore your eyes will be fighting to focus both colors > > simultaneously. Even orange has enough long-wavelength red in it as to > > cause > > this "3d optical illlusion" effect slighltly, against short-wavelength > > blues > > and purples. > > Niels > > http://nielsmayer.com > > > > PS: IMHO, there should be an option to put a border/bevel/inset/outset > > (just > > regular html, no images or rounded corners) around the different panels. > > Seems like Gmail has a good "look" in this regard, with simple borders > that > > look good, render efficient, and aren't distracting: > > http://gmailblog.blogspot.com/2009/09/four-new-themes.html . They seem > to > > have well-chosen contrasting colors for text areas as well -- what about > > just copying some of their simpler color "themes" (the color palette, not > > the exact look)? > > _______________________________________________ > > devs mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs > > > _______________________________________________ > devs mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs > _______________________________________________ devs mailing list [email protected] http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs
